Brightburn is a superpowered serial killer who lacks any apparent interest in ruling Humanity, much less saving it from itself. He's not the bad guy in his own head - he just understands that humanity creates monsters like The Joker when left to its own devices so needs someone to take control and enforce order. Injustice Superman, as well as being an adult, genuinely believes himself to be in the moral right. He doesn't have a moral compass and is more a force of nature than a villain with goals and motivations (at least in the first movie, although a future Brightburn 2 might change this). Brightburn is a lost, angry child who doesn't really care if he's doing right or wrong. As far as Brandon is concerned, he's a God among insects, and the loss of his ability to care about the people of Earth makes him unstoppable.īrightburn is different than Injustice Superman, though, despite sharing the same God-tier powers and protagonist status. This Superman allows himself to burn people alive with his heat vision like a kid with a magnifying glass because there's nothing left to tether him to the human race. The Superman story Brightburn tells is a simple one because the entire point of the film is that the removal of Kal-El's connection to humanity would leave him to see mankind as less than nothing. Brandon soon comes to view himself as superior to the very humans he's seen as his family and friends, and by the midpoint of the film, he's become a complete sociopath. As the people around Brandon slowly begin to grasp that there's something different about him, he grows more distant from humanity as he senses their lingering fear. Brandon, the young, twisted Superman in Brightburn, while being raised by clearly loving adoptive parents, discovers his abilities without their guidance and falls under the influence of a voice from his alien ship pushing him to conquer the Earth. Considering the world's polarizing response to a near-invulnerable alien living among them seen in Batman v Superman, it's hard to argue that Jonathan's trepidation was unfounded.īearing in mind the importance of the Kents to Clark's upbringing (and the mentoring he later receives from his Kryptonian father, Jor-El), Brightburn's notion is that Kal-El's ability to feel empathy is the deciding factor in what makes him a hero. It's only with the arrival of General Zod that Clark finally chooses to reveal himself to the world, because the situation demands that finally becomes Superman – whether he or the world is ready or not. With every rescue he made, the Clark Kent seen in Man of Steel would immediately disappear, knowing that the discovery of his existence alone would mark a radical turning point in human history. Warned by his adoptive father Jonathan Kent of the perils of revealing himself to humanity too swiftly, Zack Snyder's Superman went to great lengths to fly under the radar. While both films take the approach of grounding and reframing Superman, the thesis of Man of Steel was that of Kal-El as an alien finding his place in a world that is alien to him. A key point missed by criticisms directed at Brightburn is that the film has a fundamentally different set of goals than Man of Steel.
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